Convert video

Hi. i just want to know if there is an aplication to convert ANY kind of video format to another kind of video format.
for example: avi to quicktime, or mpg2 to iphone. etc...etc.... working and converting any video format to any format again.
please !
thanks a lot !.

Well, there's probably nothing that will convert ANY format to any other, but there are a number that do a wide array of formats. I would suggest VLC, FfmpegX, and MPlayer (use the SVN version from mplayerhq.hu). All of them do a fine job of conversion between formats, and they are all free and open-source.
QuickTime Pro works very well for the codecs it supports, and you can purchase additional codecs for it (Flip4Mac, for example, provides all the Windows Media Player codecs).
The OSS packages work well, but not perfectly. They offer far more encoding features and options than QT, which is wonderful, except that they permit you to convert video with parameters that aren't supported by a lot of playback software. QT, on the other hand, generally encodes video with parameters that it knows will be widely playable, and has fewer controls (for example, ffmpegX allows you to supply a discrete cosine transform matrix, DCT, for the encoding algorithm for MPEG4, whereas QT does not -- mostly because only a hardcore video hacker would know what it is or why you might want to change it from the default).

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